Those of you who have dipped into this blog will know that last year I started writing posts about a model I have created, the EPIC model for research engagement. It felt like it was becoming a bit disconnected with occasional posts and so to bring it all together,...

An article published by the Guardian Healthcare Network this week, Researchers turn to crowdfunding to develop Alzheimer’s Drug has taken me back to a conversation I had last year about the potential role of crowdfunding in health research. This was something I...

Communicate marks a point of transition in the EPIC model for engagement with research where the focus shifts from aspects of research engagement relevant to all healthcare professionals to a focus on those wishing to increase their engagement with research as part of...

To me? A great deal. In December I started to work in independent practice and in December, for the first time in many years I lost the ability to access freely academic journals. An interesting position to be in and one experienced by the majority of healthcare...

Not exactly a leap into the New Year with this component of the EPIC framework, more of a splutter. Having covered Explore and Promote in previous posts attention turns to the third component Implement which is proving to be a bit of a slippery character. Before we...

Have you ever found yourself in a recurring conversation, you know, the one where you have a sense of having been here before? If so, is there a point at which you begin to question why you are going round in circles? What if that conversation was centred around the...